Principality of Vlachia
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Culture and Society ☀︎
Art and Literature
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Architecture
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Religion
The cossacks of Arpech, and in extension the Vlachian state, believe in Aurelianism.
Demographics
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Cuisine
The Arpech cuisine is one that has been developed through hardships and struggles upon the steppes of Apartia, the need for preservation and quick and accessible food whilst on travel having come to dominate the things they consume. Due to this distinct need for quick foods that can be made on the move, they have created several types of food which is not native to the lands of Aevos. Foods such as tushonka, aspic and saddle dried meat might be disgusting to the outsider whilst it is delicacy to the common cossack. [1]
History ☀︎
Aevos
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Arriving on Aevos When they arrived on Aevos, they soon began banditing the nations within the Midlands, taking whatever valuables the unfortunate souls that crossed paths with them had yet this was not enough to soothe their lust for wealth and glory. Whilst banditing and intermingling with the populace of this new land they found out about a continental war which was taking place. The Aevos Coalition War. Sensing the great opportunity for wealth and glory by picking a side they all gathered together in a Rada to discuss which side they should join in on. There was no need for a Rada in the first place for there was no voice of opposition. Everyone wanted to side with the numerically inferior side, the side of Veletz. Some due to the fact that realm known as Haense were claiming titles which were rightfully their people’s, another group wanting to defend Veletz due to the good relations they had fostered with the locals whilst another group, Vlad included, wanted to fight for Veletz and its allies due to sharing blood ties.The Free Cossacks of Arpatia joined the war on the side of Veletz, fighting alongside them in each major clash of arms. During the Battle of Winburgh the cossacks rallied in the defense of the veletzian capital just to end up routing the covenant force alongside their allies which lead to the capture of the hyspian monarch. With the failure of the veletzian government to negotiate a separate peace with the hyspian monarch, Vlad and his kinsmen were given custody over the monarch. Some of the kinsmen had issues with the monarch after having been banished for granting one of the hyspian women a love gift in the form of a cat heart and its pelt after they said they liked cats. The cossacks decided to throw the hyspian king into a brazen bull with the intent of boiling him alive. The hyspian monarch was not the only royalty they had captured for during one of the many cossack raids upon the city of whitespire, they managed to capture one of the princess's which they soon brought back to veletz before having them send a letter to Aaun alongside a message of their own, mocking their cowardice as they fled to the top of their tower instead of facing them. [2] As the war dragged on the Cossacks encountered new kinds of warfare which they were unfamiliar with. Feudal sieges. Their unfamiliarity with the concepts of war when it came to such lead them to be an ineffective fighting force during the sieges of Breakwater and Brasca yet once the fighting took to the fields of Westmark they showed their true expertise. They rode swiftly and struck down each soldier of the covenant they came across without mercy. When the covenant forces tried to meet the Cossacks with their own cavalry they were decimated. When they tried to attack them with their infantry they were showered with arrows as the cossacks kept distance until there was no covenant soldier left standing.
With the growth of their settlement beginning and the construction taking most of their time, the cossacks soon realized they had no choice but to spare every man they could so that the construction could be swift. This led them to withdrawing from the war that ravaged the midlands, opting to stick to themselves and pursue diplomatic relations with the surrounding nations, including their former enemies in the war. Hyspia was among the first states that were visited by a Cossack delegation, lead Vlad Arpa, to discuss the future between the two states alongside furthering the unofficial friendship the two states had formed. It was not the first time they had been visited by cossacks, friendly or hostile. During the war they had been a target of banditry by the cossacks of arpech although as the disenfranchisement among the cossacks grew, they found themselves to visit with more friendly intentions and some even formed friendships with royals in the Hyspian state. Many other realms surrounding Vlachia would soon recieve a delegation aswell. Around the same time as diplomacy with the nations around them, an incident occurred during one of their weddings. WIP |